Leith’s largest and most idiosyncratic charity shop is shutting its doors.

Keith Tolstoy writes:
Leith’s largest and most idiosyncratic charity shop is shutting its doors.
Hidden away in Sandport Place between Plumbline and the Roseleaf, the Thrift Warehouse has never attracted the steady flow of customers it enjoyed at its old premises in Pilrig.
Now, sadly, the axe is falling, and the poor old warehouse will be wafted upwards [...]

How to Censor Yourself in Three Easy Steps (and Enjoy doing it)

How to Censor Yourself in Three Easy Steps (and Enjoy doing it)
In our current society you would have thought that swearing would have become a lot more accepted. It is after all only language, and some of the “heavier” profanities are all from good Anglo Saxon sources. I sometimes consider myself to veer towards the [...]

Precious Personalities

Precious Personalities
I was taken aback by events at Heathrow recently. Not with the fact that the new terminal wasn’t peforming in the way that it should do, or at the expense that it has cost to have the thing put in place. These are seemingly the everyday factors that we have to deal with in [...]

Leith News

CHANGES TO LEITH FESTIVAL PAGEANT ROUTE.
LEITH FESTIVAL PAGEANT ROUTE HAS BEEN CHANGED DUE TO TRAM WORKS AND DIVERSION OF TRAFFIC,
ON 7TH JUNE SATURDAY ROUTE WILL BE
ASSEMBLE AT LOCHEND PARK (OPPOSITE LOCH INN PUB / BEHIND THE HIBS GROUND)
DOWN LOCHEND ROAD,TURN RIGHT TO
VANBURG PLACE,
HERMITAGE PLACE,
EAST HERMITAGE PLACE,
LINKS GARDENS,
THEN [...]

A few April Fools stories from around and about

Turtle
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article983625.ece
Nick Clegg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/apr/01/nickclegg.pressandpublishing
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/apr/01/7
flying penguins